Powercolor ATi Radeon 9800 XT Video Card Review

Test Suite & Setup

All of our tests were ran at the highest possibly game settings unless otherwise noted. The real world gaming tests are ran in 1024x768x32 and also in 1600x1200x32 resolutions. We run two tests on each resolution setting, one with Anti-Aliasing & Anisotropic Filtering on and another test with Anti-Aliasing & Anisotropic Filtering off. The table below describes the testing methods we use.

Resolution	Settings
1024x768x32	No AA/AF
1600x1200x32	No AA/AF
1024x768x32	6x AA/8x AF
1600x1200x32	6x AA/8x AF

Below are the benchmarks that we are currently using:

Gun Metal

X2

Halo

Unreal Tournament 2003

AquaMark 3

Shadermark 2.0

Code Creatures

3DMark03

We have added a couple of new titles to our test suite and we have since retired some of the older benchmarks like Quake 3. If you would like to see a new title added to our benchmarking suite please contact Matt Cameron.

Test Rig
-Abit AT7-MAX2
-Athlon XP 2100+
-Samsung 512MB PC-2100
 -Radeon 9800 XT
 -Radeon 9700 All-in-Wonder